Saturday, November 21, 2015

November 21, Numbers 36

Here's
the final chapter of Numbers and we leave of with two ideas. The
first is that when God distributed the land to Israel He intended for
the tribes to hold their portion for ever. In the event that a
family only had daughters provisions were made to ensure that one
tribe couldn't take more property. The second idea is the jubilee as
mentioned. This concept had to come from God, every fifty years
property and business accounts were reset and started over.
Throughout history no economic system has survived long term, today
we are facing global economic collapse, the only thing keeping the
world still running is governments spending money that doesn't exist
to artificially keep things afloat. Also of note is there is no
evidence that Israel ever celebrated a jubilee, I suppose that
humanity couldn't see past their own greed to embrace God's system.